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Engineering Simulations as Scientific Instruments: A Pattern Language
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

Engineering Simulations as Scientific Instruments: A Pattern Language

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-11-01
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book describes CoSMoS (Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation), a pattern-based approach to engineering trustworthy simulations that are both scientifically useful to the researcher and scientifically credible to third parties. This approach emphasises three key aspects to this development of a simulation as a scientific instrument: the use of explicit models to capture the scientific domain, the engineered simulation platform, and the experimental results of running simulations; the use of arguments to provide evidence that the scientific instrument is fit for purpose; and the close co-working of domain scientists and simulation software engineers. In Part I the authors provide a managerial overview: the rationale for and benefits of using the CoSMoS approach, and a small worked example to demonstrate it in action. Part II is a catalogue of the core patterns. Part III lists more specific “helper” patterns, showing possible routes to a simulation. Finally Part IV documents CellBranch, a substantial case study developed using the CoSMoS approach.

Engineering Dependable Software Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

Engineering Dependable Software Systems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-06-19
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

Because almost all technical systems are more or less interfaced with software these days, attacks against computer systems can cause considerable economic and physical damage. For this reason, understanding the dependability of such systems, as well as the improvement of cyber security and its development process, are amongst the most challenging and crucial issues in current computer science research. This book contains the lectures from the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) Summer School entitled Engineering Dependable Software Systems, held in Marktoberdorf, Germany, in July and August 2012. This two week course for young computer scientists and mathematicians working in the field of f...

View-based Textual Modelling
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 410

View-based Textual Modelling

This work introduces the FURCAS approach, a framework for view-based textual modelling. FURCAS includes means that allow software language engineers to define partial and overlapping textual modelling languages. Furthermore, FURCAS provides an incremental update approach that enables modellers to work with multiple views on the same underlying model. The approach is validated against a set of formal requirements, as well as several industrial case studies showing its practical applicability.

Cosmos 2011
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

Cosmos 2011

The study of complex systems is growing rapidly and modelling and simulation tools are an important part of the process.This volume brings together work from a multidisciplinary group of scientists, who are studying a variety of techniques and applications for modelling and simulating complex systems.Building on the success of previous CoSMoS workshops, the work presented covers a range of modelling, simulation and visualisation techniques applied to investigate both biological and socio-technical systems.

Model-Driven Architecture - Foundations and Applications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 403

Model-Driven Architecture - Foundations and Applications

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second European Conference on Model Driven Architecture - Foundations and Applications, ECMDA-FA 2006, held in Bilbao, Spain, in July 2006. The 30 revised full papers presented - 18 papers from the foundations track and 12 from the applications track - were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on integration, applikcatoins of transformations, applications of MDA, process, model consistency, model management, transformation, ontologies, re-engineering, tools and profiles, tool generation, constraints, model management and transformations.

Security in Pervasive Computing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Security in Pervasive Computing

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Security in Pervasive Computing, SPC 2006, held in York, UK, in April 2006. The 16 revised papers presented together with the extended abstract of 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on protocols, mechanisms, integrity, privacy and security, information flow and access control, and authentication.

Cosmos 2010
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 114

Cosmos 2010

The study of complex systems is growing rapidly and modelling and simulation tools are an important part of the process. This volume brings together work from a multidisciplinary group of scientists, who are studying a variety of techniques and applications for modelling and simulating complex systems. Building on the success of the 2008 and 2009 CoSMoS workshops, the work presented covers subjects ranging from philosophy, scientific validity, and the modelling and simulation of biological and socio-technical systems.

Universal Traceability. A Comprehensive, Generic, Technology-Independent, and Semantically Rich Approach
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Universal Traceability. A Comprehensive, Generic, Technology-Independent, and Semantically Rich Approach

Traceability describes the ability of stakeholders to understand and follow relationships between artifacts that play some role in software development. It is essential for many development tasks, e.g., quality assurance, requirements management, or software maintenance. Aiming to overcome various deficiencies of existing traceability concepts, this book presents a universal approach describing required features of traceability solutions. This includes a technology-independent, generic template for the definition of semantically rich traceability relationship types and technology-independent patterns for the retrieval of traceability information, reflecting generic problems common to traceability applications. The universal approach is implemented on the basis of two concrete technologies which facilitate comprehensive traceability: the TGraph approach and OWL ontologies. The applicability of the approach is shown by three case studies dealing with the reuse of software artifacts, process model refinement, and requirements management, respectively.

Communicating Process Architectures 2008
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 472

Communicating Process Architectures 2008

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

Communicating Process Architectures 2008 contains the proceedings of the thirty-first Communicating Process Architectures Conference (CPA 2008) organized under the auspices of WoTUG and the Department of Computer Science of the University of York. The aim of this book is to cover both theoretical aspects and industrial applications of Communicating Processes. Two invited speakers have given excellent contributions to this topic. Professor Samson Abramsky has worked in the areas of semantics and logic of computation, and concurrency. His work on game semantics considers interaction and information flow between multiple agents and their environment. This has yielded new approaches to compositional model-checking and to analysis for programs with state, concurrency, probability, and other features. Professor Colin O'Halloran has been instrumental in the uptake of formal methods in the development and verification of high assurance systems on an industrial scale. His research interests are in automating the use of formal methods and using these techniques at reasonable cost and on an industrial scale.

Security in Pervasive Computing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Security in Pervasive Computing

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-03-10
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Security in Pervasive Computing, SPC 2006, held in York, UK, in April 2006. The 16 revised papers presented together with the extended abstract of 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on protocols, mechanisms, integrity, privacy and security, information flow and access control, and authentication.